An escaped convict is hurt and needs help. Ricky and Champion must decide whether to tell the Sheriff.
(Black and white) (R)
Chris Serle, in this week's exploration into the biggest film and videotape library in the world, discovers what transport means to Robbie and a flying boat, Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers and a Weed in The Flowerpot Men. There's classic comedy from Sykes and a Bus and a Bus Strike in 1946 that seems like a holiday. From Nationwide there's a vicar with a wheelbarrow, and even a Churchmobile. There's trouble on a train in Telegoons: The Hastings Flier with the voices of Peter Sellers , Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. Guest traveller Alan Whicker tells tales of Tonight, when he was Whicker Down Under, and of the time he stopped a train in Whicker on Top of the World. You can even prove that dogs on skateboards go in anything but straight lines. Producer MIKE SEDDON
Series producer ALBERT BARBER
Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists -
12 people who contribute in very different ways to our understanding of the human mind.
The act of painting a scene is normally imagined to be an exercise in manual dexterity. There is, however, a great deal more to drawing or painting than the simple
'copying' of a visual image on to paper or canvas. Sir Ernst Gombrich , author of Art and Illusion, has spent his life exploring the psychological processes which underlie the making of pictures.
Production PHILIP SPEIGHT and DAVID F. TURNBULL (R)
Introduced by Nigel Starmer-Smith Bath v Waterloo
Bath have won the English Cup for the last two years; Waterloo, as a top northern club, would dearly like to take a major victory back to Lancashire. Highlights and news of the weekend's rugby. Series producer HUW JONES
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The new venue for the World Championship should be near capacity as local hero RITCHIE GARDNER takes on Australian No 1 TERRY O'DEA , as the first round continues. The other two matches in this session are FRED MCMULLAN
(N Ireland) against
WILLIE MANDS (Scotland) and, what could be one of the tightest matches in this round, No 4 seed CLIFF LAZARENKO playing England's DAVE LEE.
TONY GUBBA introduces today's action. Commentators SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN Television presentation
MCK HUNTER. KEITH MACKENZIE Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
begins a season of acclaimed films produced by ALEXANDER KORDA.
Today starring John Clements
Ralph Richardson
'There's no place in England for a coward', young Harry Faversham is told by a nostalgic General Burroughs. Ten years later Harry and his three boyhood friends ready themselves to fight under Kitchener in Egypt. But
Harry believes he should stay and care for his wife and receives a white feather from each of his comrades. To prove them wrong he departs for the desert, in disguise.... This magnificent epic recreates great battle scenes in turn-of-the-century Egypt.
Screenplay by R.c. SHERIFF from the novel by A.E.W. MASON Produced by ALEXANDER KORDA Directed by ZOLTAN KORDA
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The young Takacs Quartet Gabor Takacs-Nagy (violin) Karoly Schranz (violin) Gabor Ormai (viola) Andras Fejer (cello) from Hungary play the first of Haydn's great set of six
Quartets, Op 76. Today No 1 inc
Sound NORMAN CANLIN Lighting JOHN MCCAW
Producer MIKE NEWMAN BBC Scotland
featuring Four Hills ski jumping and World Cup ski racing
Ski Jumping from Innsbruck
- Hill three in the New Year series at the 1976 Olympic venue. It looks like another head to head between
MATTI NYKAENEN and JENS
WEISSFLOG - they've been first and second on the Bergisel hill for the last three years. RON PICKERING checks for distance and describes the style.
Men's Slalom from Borovets.
Meanwhile, the racers have gone east to the forests of the Rila mountains above the oldest ski resort in Bulgaria. DAVID vine is on hand to check for gatecrashing. TV presentation by ORF, Austria and BT. Bulgaria Producer JIM RESIDE
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Further coverage of this afternoon's sessions in the first round of the premier competition in the darts world.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA
Shortgrass Country
Southern Saskatchewan is Canada's 'shortgrass country', a northerly extension of the great prairie that spans the length of the United States.
To the casual eye the thin veneer of windswept grass may seem deserted, but even in the biting depths of winter there is life here ... the porcupine, the prairie hare, the pronghorn antelope. In the warmth of spring the prairie comes alive.
Snow-melt waters a bloom of flowers, ground squirrels and prairie dogs emerge from their burrows, horned larks proclaim their territories ... and over them all hawks and falcons ride the one element that dominates shortgrass country, the wind.
Narrator Barry Paine
Photographed ana produced by ROBERT J. LONG
Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol
The eighth of 12 films about life in the Soviet Union. Office on the Pacific
Nakhodka lies at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway, 6,000 miles and seven time zones from Moscow.
At 33, Tatyana Naumova is
Town Council Secretary and a leading Communist Party activist. Her task is to chase inefficient managers and bungling bureaucrats, and to deal with the public's complaints about housing and social services in this
Pacific port. She also runs the Palace of Weddings, where Soviet couples are ceremonially joined together, with all the trimmings, once every ten minutes. Tatyana's own marriage and her two young daughters are not allowed to interrupt her workaholic routine or to diminish her ambition. As she says: 'Every soldier dreams of becoming a general'.
Photography david SWAN Sound ROBIN SWAIN
Film editor JANE VAL BAKER
Series producer RICHARD DENTON Producer ALAN BOOKBINDER
The World Young Masters
Final from The International Congress Centre, West Berlin In last year's tournament BORIS BECKER first came to our attention, beating STEFAN EDBERG in the final. Since then both men have won
Grand Slam events. So has
MATSWILANDER, the No 1 seed. Presenter GERALD WILLIAMS Commentator DAN MASKELL TV presentation by ARD
(In association with The Belgian American Investment and Trade Organisation)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
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JOHN LOWE, the No 2 seed, takes the stage in the first match of this evening session of first round ties. His opponent is ROBERT MCKENZIE, a talented player from
Scotland who is always likely to upset the seedings. Also playing in this evening's first round matches are WILLIE LOGIE (Belgium) against kari SAUKKONEN (Finland), and No
7 seed BOB ANDERSON against
BOBBY ■GLITTER' GEORGE
Introduced by TONY GUBBA
